신명기 4:12의 미드라쉬

(Prov. 3:9:) HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE AND WITH THE FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR PRODUCE. Thus if you are handsome, do not be shameless in sexual matters, lest people say: So and so is handsome but not restrained in sexual matters. For that reason, HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR SUBSTANCE.¹⁹Tanh., Deut. 4:12; PRK 10:3; PR 25:2.

There is a story about a person who amassed wine and oil but did not take out his tithes properly. What did the Holy One do to him? He put a squally windy {i.e., an evil spirit} in him, so that he took a staff and began to smash the <wine and oil> jars. His steward rebuked him. What did he do to him? He took the staff and cracked him on his head. He said to him: Instead of helping me, you—. I am rebuking you.²¹Cf. PRK 10:2; Yalqut Shim‘one, Re’eh, 892; ibid., Prov., 932; and Tanh., Deut. 4:12 (most editions), all of which read: “Instead of helping me, you have rebuked me”; however, the first edition of the traditional Tanhuma (Constantinople, 1520–22) has a reading not unlike the Buber text. He said to him: Give me the staff, and I shall smash away. He gave him the staff. While the one was smashing one <jar>, the other was smashing two. What made this happen to him? <It was> because he had not taken out his tithes properly.